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A debtor who emptied an investment account mere hours before his former divorce attorney could attach the money to satisfy a debt did not inflict a “willful and malicious injury,” a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. Boston attorney Danielle ...

Some defense attorneys claim they are being denied a fair opportunity to challenge criminal allegations at District Courts that refuse to grant them access to police reports in advance of show cause hearings. Springfield’s Ryan E. Alekman said he’s been ...

An employer that failed to pay an employee for all accrued wages and unused vacation time on the date of his termination, but paid everything in full before the employee filed a Wage Act lawsuit, was liable for treble damages ...

A Superior Court judge has upheld an arbitrator’s decision ordering the city of Boston to reinstate a police officer fired for allegedly putting a suspect in a chokehold and then lying about it. At a time of heightened concern over ...

Can a judge order a lawyer to pay an opponent’s attorneys’ fees in the absence of a statute authorizing such a sanction and when the attorney has violated no court orders or procedural rules? The Supreme Judicial Court’s recent answer ...

A policyholder who defeated an insurer’s declaratory action asserting that it had no obligation to cover a negligence claim brought against the policyholder was entitled to attorneys’ fees, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The insurance company, which continued ...

An MCAD hearing officer has found that Boston College unlawfully retaliated against one of its professors by refusing to reintegrate the faculty member into the school’s chemistry department following his mental-health-related medical leave. The complainant, William F. Armstrong, had sent ...

The meeting in Thomas J. Frain’s Bolton office in spring 2007 should have been a pleasant one. Representatives of the Walter E. Fernald Corp., an all-volunteer nonprofit serving the developmentally disabled, had gathered with officials from the state’s Department of ...

A customer at a pick-your-own-fruit orchard who tripped and fell over the corner of a wooden pallet at the end of the checkout counter could not sue the establishment over her injuries, a Superior Court judge has determined. The plaintiff ...

Charles L. Lonardo only has to look out his office window to be reminded of the truth: He just isn’t cut out for anything else. Following his 2006 misdemeanor conviction for conspiracy to commit automobile insurance fraud and a year-long ...